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HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. To learn more about HP Cloud Services, visit us at www.hpcloud.com

Diamond

Akiban Technologies creates a new generation of relational database that differentiates itself from traditional relational databases in the way it stores and manipulates its data physically. The architecture is referred to as “Table-Grouping™”, collocating data that belongs together, which yields substantial benefits.
The technology is aimed to help companies that run operational database systems that are experiencing slowdown due to data growth, increasing data complexity and/or expanding numbers of concurrent users.
Akiban Server is a full-featured, Java-based, standalone relational database. However it can also be configured to augment existing MySQL deployments. The option to plug into MySQL infrastructure lets you solve tough MySQL problems. Queries that take MySQL seconds or even minutes are executed 10-100x faster, every time

Amazon Database Services, a part of Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers fully-managed, low-cost, and scalable Relational, NoSQL, and Caching services in the cloud. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is available for MySQL and Oracle and provides a fully-featured and easy to operate relational database, allowing you to offload database administration. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully-managed NoSQL database service that provides fast, predictable performance with seamless scalability. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully-managed in-memory caching service that is protocol-compatible with Memcached. At Amazon Database Services, we strive to make products to meet all your database needs. Sign up for a free trial at http://aws.amazon.com/rds/free-trial and tell us what you think.

Clustrix is the leader in NewSQL databases for transactional big-data applications. It enables fast-growing web businesses to rapidly scale to unlimited users, transactions and data, with no database sharding and full ACID compliance. Clustrix is delivered as an optimized appliance that is easy to install and automates fault tolerance as the database grows.
Clustrix helps break the vicious cycle of database cost and complexity with a simpler, more elegant approach that allows you to focus 100% on innovation. A unique parallel query model enables linear transactional performance as you add nodes. Start fast, scale fast, grow big and never hit the wall.

McAfee is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. Delivering proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, McAfee protects consumers and businesses of all sizes from the latest malware and emerging online threats. McAfee solutions are designed to work together, integrating antimalware, antispyware, and antivirus software with security management features that deliver unsurpassed real-time visibility and analytics, reduce risk, ensure compliance, improve Internet security, and help businesses achieve operational efficiencies.

Platinum

New Relic is the all-in-one web application management provider for the cloud and the datacenter. More than 14,000 organizations use New Relic to optimize over 6 billion web transactions in production each day. Fully implemented in just minutes, New Relic provides 24x7 real user monitoring and code-level diagnostics for web apps deployed on dedicated infrastructures, the cloud, or hybrid environments. New Relic provides support for Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET platforms and related frameworks. New Relic also partners with leading cloud management, platform, and hosting vendors to provide their customers with instant visibility into the performance of deployed applications.

Gold

Fusion-io is the pioneer of a next generation storage memory platform that significantly improves the processing capabilities within a datacenter by relocating active data from centralized storage to the server where it is processed. Fusion¹s integrated hardware and software solutions leverage non-volatile memory to significantly increase datacenter efficiency and offers enterprise grade performance, reliability, availability and manageability.

Silver

Founded in 2005, Box provides a secure, scalable content-sharing platform for nearly 6 million users and companies, including 82% of the FORTUNE 500. Box's dynamic, flexible content management solution lets users to access and share content from anywhere, while providing IT visibility into how content moves within their organizations and beyond. Content on Box can also be accessed through mobile applications and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce. Box is privately-held and backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale Venture Partners and U.S. Venture Partners. Visit us at www.box.com

Booking.com is part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq:PCLN) the World’s #1 Online Hotel Reservations Company attracting over 30 million unique visitors every month and offering over 185,000 hotels worldwide.
Due to the growth of our IT department we need experts in Mobile, UX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, jQuery, performance!
Would you like to work in an international, results driven, fun & dynamic work environment? Join us! We are based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Google Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, California, operates a fairly popular Internet search engine. The Google MySQL team customizes, adapts, and operates the MySQL database at to serve the large-scale relational storage needs of several Google products. We're hiring, and always interested in collaborators for our open-source tools and MySQL branch. Stop by our booth for more information.

Facebook is a social utility that helps over 800 million people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The site has been built on common open source software – and is one of the largest users of MySQL in the world. MySQL handles many user interactions such as likes, shares, status updates, alerts, requests, and more.
Facebook engineers actively contribute and participate in various open source projects, developing technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph.
For more information, please visit: facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook

Joyent is a global cloud computing software and service provider that offers an integrated technology suite designed for service providers, enterprises, and developers. Joyent is able to deliver unprecedented economies of scale and competitive advantages to service providers, enterprises and developers in the form of higher hardware utilization and margins, and in compute performance and scalability.

NuoDB is a 21st century database that addresses the challenge of webscale applications for the cloud. Exploiting a decentralized, shared-nothing architecture, the NuoDB database is 100% SQL compliant, guarantees ACID transactions, yet scales seamlessly and elastically on on-premises and modern cloud-based computing resources. Founded in 2011 by industry-renowned database architect and innovator Jim Starkey and enterprise software CEO Barry Morris, NuoDB will launch its next generation database software in Spring 2012. For more information, visit us at www.nuodb.com.

ScaleBase improves business performance. The ScaleBase Database Manager is a simple solution that dynamically manages and scales your MySQL database to meet the demands of your business. ScaleBase delivers real time elasticity, increases availability and improves capacity planning, without requiring any changes to your existing infrastructure. ScaleBase’s customers span a wide range of industries including SaaS companies, online gaming companies, digital media providers, social networks and enterprises. The company is venture backed and is based in Newton, MA. For more information, visit www.scalebase.com.

SkySQL Ab, the company behind the SkySQL™ Enterprise subscription, is the first choice in affordable database solutions for the MySQL® database for the enterprise and cloud. Founded by former executives, personnel, and investors of MySQL AB, SkySQL Ab is an open source software company committed to furthering the future development of MySQL-based database technologies, while delivering cost-effective database solutions and exceptional customer service. SkySQL Ab’s customers include ATOS Worldline, Canal+, Deutsche Telekom, ClubMed, Lotte.com, La Poste, Constant Contact and Virgin Mobile. SkySQL’s worldwide headquarters is located in Helsinki, Finland. The company has operations in Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please call +1(877) 303-5799, or visit www.skysql.com, and follow conversations at www.twitter.com/skysql.

For startups and established companies of all sizes, PalominoDB provides ongoing operational support and professional expertise in database architecture, performance and scale. With a focus on open-source and other best-in-class software components, and extensive experience in all major and emerging database technologies, PalominoDB engages with customers to develop custom, cost-effective projects and long-term support contracts in areas from system design to automation to business intelligence and more. PalominoDB is renowned for an emphasis on transparency, communication and responsiveness, as well as operational excellence.

10gen develops MongoDB, and offers production support, training, and consulting for the open source database.
10gen was founded by former DoubleClick Founder and CTO Dwight Merriman and former DoubleClick engineer and ShopWiki Founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz. Dwight and Eliot began development on MongoDB in 2007, drawing upon their experiences building large scale, high availability, robust systems.

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Zmanda is the global leader in open source enterprise backup. The company's products Amanda, Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL, and Zmanda Cloud Backup make it simple and affordable to backup and recover data in an increasingly complex and heterogeneous IT environment. ZRM for MySQL is mission-critical backup solution designed specifically for MySQL databases. Businesses in more than 60 countries trust Zmanda to protect their corporate data.

Infobright develops and markets a high-performance, self-tuning analytic database designed to analyze large volumes of “machine-generated data.” Easy to implement, with unmatched data compression, operational simplicity and low cost, Infobright is being used by leading enterprises to provide rapid analysis of critical business data.

STEC, Inc. is a leading global provider of solid-state technologies and solutions tailored to meet high-performance requirements of enterprises, system integrators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
With headquarters in Santa Ana, California and locations worldwide, STEC leverages nearly two decades of knowledge and experience to deliver the industry's most comprehensive line of solid-state solutions. STEC's mission is to provide the world's highest level of quality, reliability and innovation to the solid-state storage market, and solve the challenges related to the explosive demand for accelerated access to data.

Couchbase Server is the simple, fast, elastic NoSQL database that delivers a more scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective approach to data management than relational database technology. It is particularly well suited for web applications deployed on virtualized or cloud infrastructures, and for applications requiring real-time data synchronization between mobile devices and the cloud.

ScaleArc is the pioneer in a new category of database infrastructure software that simplifies the way database environments are deployed and managed, and lowers costs without any changes to applications or databases. The ScaleArc iDB software abstracts database servers from application servers to provide instant horizontal scaling and connection management, and enablesreal-time visibility into every query to provide real-time analytics and instant troubleshooting, one-click query caching, wire-speed security enforcement, and much more.

Available in both print and digital editions, Linux Pro Magazine (Linux Magazine outside North America) brings practical, hands-on solutions for real users who depend on Linux in their daily lives. Our readers are a new generation of Linux experts who are pushing the limits of Linux as a server, desktop, and development platform. They read Linux Pro Magazine to learn more about technologies and products for Linux. Our unique combination of advanced coverage with a practical emphasis makes Linux Pro Magazine a great fit for the kind of readers who tend to make decisions and pass on recommendations. Sign up for 3 issues + 3 DVDs for only $3 at http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/.

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future.

Additional Sponsors

Machine Zone is the leader in free2play community-based Mobile MMO games with hit titles including Original Gangstaz, Global War, iMob, Race of Die, among several others. Our games have been downloaded & played by 30MM+ gamers, with all games having been among Top Free & Grossing App Store rankings. Our games have one of the most active and vibrant in-game community (several billion friendships among gamers in each game) that drives the highest user engagement (several hundred million minutes of monthly gameplay for each game), and one of the most rapid growth.

Craigslist is a network of community moderated and largely free local classifieds and forums sites, where its users find jobs, housing, goods, services, romance, and anything else you can imagine. It began in 1995 as an email list of San Francisco events run by Craig Newmark, and was incorporated as a business in 1999. craigslist gets more than 30 billion views per month, is in the top 5 companies worldwide for English-language page views, and is used by more than 50 million people each month in the United States alone. Today craigslist is available in 700 regions, 70 countries, and 10 languages. craigslist hosts more than 50 million new classifieds each month and over 200 million user posts in its discussion forums. craigslist is based in San Francisco. Visit www.craigslist.org.

At AOL, we're in the business of making the Internet better -- period. Through innovation and creativity, we've raised the bar and set the standard for what we believe high quality content is on the Internet. Our content sites and products allow more than 250 million visitors around the world to access the best collection of journalists, artists and musicians on the web. After 25 years, AOL is still very much a pioneer and we encourage you to come along for the ride and see what's next.